Otakar Vávra
Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.
Vávra attended universities in Brno and Prague, where he studied architecture. During 1929–30, while still a student, he participated in the making of a handful of documentaries and wrote movie scripts. In 1931, he produced the experimental film Světlo proniká tmou. The first movie he directed was 1937's Panenství.
His 1938 film The Merry Wives was praised in Variety for "first-rate direction, a salty yarn and elaborate production effort", even though it had undergone certain cuts because it was considered too "ribald" by American censors.
Vávra was a member of the Communist Party from 1945 to 1989. After the Communists seized power in 1948, Vávra adapted quickly to the new political climate and produced films praising the current regime and supporting the new, official interpretation of the past.
In the 1950s he filmed the "Hussite Trilogy", one of his most famous works, consisting of Jan Hus (1954), Jan Žižka (1955) and Against All (1957).[2]
In the 1960s, Vávra made his most celebrated films Zlatá reneta (1965), Romance for Bugle (1966) and Witchhammer (1969). Romance for Bugle was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize.
In the 1970s Vávra produced his "War Trilogy" consisting of semi-documentary movies Dny zrady, Sokolovo and Osvobození Prahy, all being heavily influenced by communist propaganda. The film Dny zrady (Days of Betrayal, 1973) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Diploma. In 1979 he was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
Since the 1950s Vávra taught film direction at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Among his students were several directors of the "Czech New Wave".
Fotos
Películas (85)
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018 · Self
Searching for Ester
2005 · Himself
Moje Praha
2002 · Self, Director, Story, Screenplay
Evropa tančila valčík
1989 · Director
The Great Movie Robbery
1987
Veronika
1986 · Screenplay, Director
Oldrich and Bozena
1985 · Director, Screenplay
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
1985 · Self - Audience Member
Komediant
1984 · Director, Screenplay
Putování Jana Amose
1983 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Dark Sun
1980 · Director, Screenplay
A Story of Love and Honor
1978 · Director, Screenplay
The Liberation of Prague
1977 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Sokolovo
1975 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Days of Betrayal
1973 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Witchhammer
1970 · Director, Screenplay
The Thirteenth Chamber
1969 · Director, Screenplay
Romance for Bugle
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Golden Queen
1965 · Screenplay, Director
Horoucí srdce
1963 · Story, Screenplay, Director
The Night Guest
1961 · Screenplay, Director
August Sunday
1961 · Director, Screenplay
Policejní hodina
1961 · Screenplay, Director
Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek
1960 · Director, Screenplay
První parta
1960 · Screenplay, Director
Občan Brych
1959 · Screenplay, Director
A Box of Film
1958 · Self
Against All
1957 · Director, Creative Producer, Screenplay
Jan Žižka
1956 · Screenplay, Creative Producer, Story, Director
Jan Hus
1955 · Story, Screenplay, Director
Shoesmachine
1954 · Screenplay
Nástup
1953 · Director, Screenplay
Posel úsvitu
1951 · Creative Producer
Racek Is Late
1950 · Creative Producer
Dva ohně
1950 · Creative Producer
Láska
1950 · Screenplay, Director
Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
1949 · Creative Producer
Year of the Revolution 1848
1949 · Creative Producer, Story, Screenplay
Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“
1949 · Story, Screenplay, Creative Producer
Silent Barricade
1949 · Creative Producer, Screenplay, Director
Vzbouření na vsi
1949 · Creative Producer
Na dobré stopě
1949 · Creative Producer
White Darkness
1948 · Creative Producer
The Musician
1948 · Creative Producer
Wild Beasts
1948 · Creative Producer
Krakatit
1948 · Creative Producer, Director, Screenplay
Až se vrátíš...
1948 · Creative Producer
Presentiment
1947 · Creative Producer, Director, Screenplay
The Adventurous Bachelor
1946 · Director, Screenplay
Cesta k barikádám
1946 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Rozina the Love Child
1945 · Director, Screenplay
Vlast vítá
1945 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Návrat presidenta dr. Edvarda Beneše do Prahy 16. května 1945
1945 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Happy Journey
1943 · Director, Screenplay
Přijdu hned
1942 · Director, Screenplay
Okouzlená
1942 · Director, Screenplay
Turbina
1941 · Director, Screenplay
May Fairy Tale
1940 · Director, Screenplay
The Masked Lover
1940 · Screenplay, Director
Pacientka dr. Hegla
1940 · Screenplay, Director
The Girl in Blue
1940 · Director, Screenplay
The Magic House
1939 · Director, Screenplay
Humoreska
1939 · Director, Screenplay
The Merry Wives
1938 · Director, Screenplay
Její pastorkyně
1938 · Screenplay
Hlídač č. 47
1937 · Screenplay
History of Philosophy
1937 · Director, Screenplay
Virginity
1937 · Director, Screenplay
Morality Above All Else
1937 · Screenplay
Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle
1937 · Director, Screenplay
A Little Street in Paradise
1936 · Writer
Uličnice
1936 · Screenplay
Passage in the Paradise
1936 · Screenplay, Story
Three Men in the Snow
1936 · Screenplay
Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
1935 · Screenplay
Listopad
1935 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
Bezdětná
1935 · Screenplay
The Eleventh Commandment
1935 · Screenplay
Maryša
1935 · Screenplay
We Live in Prague
1934 · Director, Editor, Story, Screenplay
Svítání
1933 · Screenplay
Ze světa lesních samot
1933 · Screenplay
The Light Penetrates the Dark
1931 · Director, Editor, Screenplay, Story
Modern shoe production
1931 · Director
The Bať family's trip to Yugoslavia
1930 · Director